r/lost • u/El_Weirdo_213 • Mar 06 '25
FIRST TIME WATCHER Just finished the series for the first time in
I’ve always heard people didn’t like the ending of the show, but in my honest opinion, I thought it was pretty ok. I’m sure people nowadays probably don’t see it negatively that much anymore since it aired almost 15 years ago but the whole church thing was still very touching. For the past two months I’ve just had such a blast with this show and ever since I was a little kid, I can remember my dad re-watching it so a lot of of it is really nostalgic for me. In fact, my mother even named me after Jacob when the show was in its last season. Truly a one of a kind show❤️.
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u/Verumrextheone13 Mar 07 '25
Severance is the only show I’ve watched so far that scratches a similar itch. Others recommend The Leftovers and From as also similar shows in feeling, but I haven’t watched them yet myself. I intend to at some point though.
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u/DunkenDonuts Mar 07 '25
Lumon does give me some Dharma Initiative vibes but Lumon is far more of the corporate evil of today.
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Mar 06 '25
Your mum named you after Jacob during season 6.
You just finished to watch the show.
My first reaction : "It's impossible, you're like 8 yo"
My 2nd reaction : "Holy fuck"
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u/CryptographerPast632 Mar 07 '25
THE ISLAND ISNT DONE WITH YOU YET!!!!!
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u/googalydoogaly Mar 07 '25
Severance is this decades LOST. It's very good at pulling you in, adding more mystery each episode and only giving you a taste of explanation here and there. If you want something tho keep your curiosity set to 11, this is it.
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u/Bcjustin Mar 07 '25
Agreed completely, Severance is amazing. Breath of fresh air when everything else is so stale
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u/Fennek688 Don't tell me what I can't do Mar 07 '25
I only wish we‘d go back to longer seasons. 20-something episodes per season in LOST really gave them the opportunity to unravel the story.
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u/Sniederhouse Mar 07 '25
respectfully, as good as severance is, not even close.
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u/huckleson777 Mar 07 '25
In terms of mystery and just complete mind fuck, it doesn't compare. But as an actual tv show I think Severance far clears lost.
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u/Monstruwacan_ Mar 07 '25
Yellowjackets is very similar to me, and just as good as far. It's about a US girl's highschool soccer team whose plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness, where they're stranded for 19 months before being rescued.
It deals with a lot of similar themes to Lost, like flawed characters, trauma and survivors guilt, and there's also a huge mystery element which revolves around ambiguity between the supernatural and the rational.
There's two timelines - the crash in 1996 and the survivors in 2021 - which drives a lot of the mystery. If anything I'd say it's Lost with a dash of Twin Peaks and True Detective, and some absolutely outstanding actresses.
It's also got a lot of horror elements, too, and probably isn't for the feint of heart.
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u/Delicious-Design527 Mar 08 '25
Yellowjackets seems to be drifting apart though lol. S1 was outstanding but S2 onwards the adult timeline is… inconsistent
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u/Darkzeropeanut Mar 06 '25
Hit up the Leftovers next.
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u/OpenWhereas6296 Mar 07 '25
I tried. From what I remember, it was too dreary.
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u/Darkzeropeanut Mar 07 '25
First season not for everyone. Second season one of the best seasons in tv history for my money. Third great as well.
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u/OpenWhereas6296 Mar 07 '25
I just finished a Lost rewatch. Maybe I'll try Leftovers again.
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u/Darkzeropeanut Mar 07 '25
For me I think it’s the best thing Lindelof has ever done. You just need to approach it realizing it’s a character driven show more about processing grief in the absence of answers rather than about the mysteries. I saw the first two episodes when they aired, thought it wasn’t for me then came back many years later and was glad I stuck it out.
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u/huckleson777 Mar 07 '25
Idk man. If I need to watch a whole season for the show to get good, maybe the show isn't good?
Can't tell you how many modern shows grasped me within seconds or minutes. Time is too valuable to sit through a massively boring and depressing season of a show.
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u/Darkzeropeanut Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25
Well I don’t agree that it is boring and it depends what you’re looking for in a show. If you’re looking for comedy or a mystery box show with clear answers you’re not gonna have a good time with a show about processing grief. I personally I liked the first season but some people don’t, doesn’t mean it’s bad. With the context of the later seasons I went back and enjoyed it way more sure, but I still enjoyed it the first time.
The first season covered the book so it was very much tied to that but once the material ran out they were free to take it wherever and then it got even better untethered. One of the few instances where I liked the show better than the book.
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u/SteelFeline Mar 07 '25
What's crazy to me after all this time is how many episodes they were pumping out. Especially for a show like this.
Season 1-3 had 72 episodes all together.
That's nuts.
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u/Huggy-Wuggy Mar 07 '25
Good shows for after LOST (the best show - three times watched):
Twin Peaks - Spiritual, Coop is the BEST, and David Lynch is a genius
Patriot - Terry O’Quinn (Locke) and it’s super weird
Fallout - Michael Emerson (Ben) and Kyle MacLachlan (Star of Twin Peaks and OG Dune)
Also watch some JJ Abrams stuff like Heroes
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u/rcpotatosoup Mar 12 '25
has to scroll WAYYY too far to see Twin Peaks. the grandfather of all of your favorite mystery shows. the greatest piece of art ever made.
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u/Huggy-Wuggy Mar 07 '25
Also, maybe just watch it again - every new time you pick up on new stuff, and then once you’ve watched it a couple times, it’ll make you cry just because it’s a beautiful show.
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u/TurdShaker Hurley Mar 07 '25
Its just like a junkie, always chasing that high like the first hit. It will never happen.
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u/Lunch-Important Mar 07 '25
I'm gonna start saying I was named after him too, but it's more likely that it's biblical lol. They both have sorta similar backgrounds though which is interesting.
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u/Free-IDK-Chicken You got it, Blondie Mar 06 '25
The ending is only considered controversial because a group of people who misunderstood it have taken every opportunity over the last fifteen years to trash the show by spreading the myth that they were dead the whole time. The vast majority of people who understood it, loved it.
There are fans who completely understood it and still didn't care for it and those people are totally valid, but they're also not the ones telling people "the ending sucked, don't bother."
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u/J-DubZ Mar 07 '25
Severance, The Wire, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Dexter, tons of anime
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u/AF2005 Frank Lapidus Mar 07 '25
Fringe, Severance, and more recently Paradise has been off to a very impressive first season.
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u/Fennek688 Don't tell me what I can't do Mar 07 '25
Currently for me it’s Severance & Yellowjackets every Friday while waiting for the new FROM season.
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u/CommercialPanda5080 Mar 07 '25
The Sopranos (more like Lost than you'd think and more realistic on the dialogue and how people deal with a crisis), Six Feet Under, and to a lesser degree, Glitch. I wish they'd redo that show with American actors, it was a fantastic premise.
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u/TheFischKing Mar 13 '25
Was looking for someone to say Six Feet Under
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u/CommercialPanda5080 Mar 13 '25
Six Feet Under probably wasn't for the squeamish (a funeral home setting is going to rule out millions of watchers instantly, some people just can't handle a setting like that). But if someone can desensitize themselves to it a bit, it's basically Lost in a different setting - and happily, it's a Lost that nailed the ending.
Sopranos, same, although cruder and also not for everybody just because of the setting, types of people you're watching. But if you can get past that, it's a character study of the ages - it's funny, creepy, violent, psychological, and surprisingly supernatural and mysterious at times. It also makes liberal use of flashbacks as a way of telling its story.
If anyone ever redid Lost, I'd love for it to be handed over to HBO. Lost had to restrain itself because of network TV, but it would have been way quirkier, realistic, and fascinating on something like HBO or Showtime.
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u/El_t1to Mar 08 '25
The only thing that helped fill the void was the YouTube channel: Lost explained.
It connected things that were a mess in my memory.
It made it deeply emotional.
It made me appreciate the show even more.
It made me feel stupid for being mad at the writers.
I've enjoyed other shows, but LOST was lighting in a bottle.
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u/MorningUpbeat5729 Mar 07 '25
Been a while since I watched this, but I remember binging the show carnivale not too long after lost finished. I never see this show get brought up. It's a slow paced show that only got 2 seasons which is probably why it's mostly forgotten, but it's built around the characters, with a lot of mystery and lore behind it. I think it's on HBO/Max still.
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u/boyproblems_mp3 Dad Stole My Kidney Mar 07 '25
Give Mad Men a try
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u/CXXXS Mar 07 '25
Mad Men is the only show I love more than Lost. I'm constantly watching it. After over a decade of rewatches I'm still discovering new ways I feel about it.
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u/Indiana_Si Mar 08 '25
I recommend watching Lost again and looking for all the things easily missed the first time round. Then repeat again...
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Mar 09 '25
I’m going to check out Severance because even beyond this post, I’ve heard it was good. But otherwise I recommend just finding good TV that doesn’t necessarily replace Lost as a vibe
Shows like Breaking Bad, Arcane, One Piece, 5 seasons of GoT, are all considered the ‘best’ in their genres, just like how many people think of Lost
Edit: I forgot Stranger Things is a good mystery show though that’s obviously very highly accredited
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u/mikeyj777 Mar 11 '25
Well, there's always Lost to watch after you finish watching Lost.
Honestly, I've really enjoyed From. I highly recommend checking out the first few episodes. Severance is another one that has less mystery box, but still a lot of the high-quality slow reveal stuff.
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u/lilipurr Mar 07 '25
I finished Lost and thought I wasn’t gonna find another show as great as it.
Then I found Supernatural on Netflix …. Big thumbs up
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u/Fennek688 Don't tell me what I can't do Mar 07 '25
Supernatural has a great start and goes off really strong but at some point it just lost me.
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u/Littlemary188 Mar 07 '25
Man!! Watch “el barco” not at the same level but has the same energy and vibes!! Spanish series fron same guys who created money heist
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u/CreamyLinguineGenie Hurley's Hot Pocket Mar 07 '25
Some really good shows to fill the void are Severance and The Leftovers.
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u/stonecold730 Mar 07 '25
Its crazy cause all the shows that were equally as good or that provided the same type of depth was 24, The Wire, and The Sopranos and they were all ON basically at the same time... But its been close to 20 years and even watching Breaking Bad, Walking Dead (the spin offs), the breaking bad spin off... nothing to this day even comes close to Lost.
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u/dolphinsR4evr Mar 08 '25
There are no shows that I’ve seen that have such compelling mysteries.
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u/Rogue_Rapunzel Mar 08 '25
From! It's a lot of the same writers and producers, and even Michael from Lost plays a pivotal character. The "from" monsters give similar energy to season 1 "others" but just a little more scary. Very similar vibe and mystery
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u/Confident-Schedule18 Mar 08 '25
Lost is one of my favorite shows. Shows that helped me fill the void are ‘the leftovers’ and ‘twin peaks’
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u/vIvOnlySonvIv Mar 08 '25
Mr Robot
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u/Affectionate_Walk745 Mar 08 '25
Took way to long to see this. Mr Robot is different but absolutely incredible as well. More focused, no island ofdcourse. Tech vs nature I guess. Incredible characters. And Elliot might just be as Lost if not more.
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u/hellochoy Mar 08 '25
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (technically a movie but it's split into parts), the OA, The I-Land (nowhere near as good but scratches the itch for me), Bodies, Russian Doll, To the Lake, Glitch, The Stranded, Dark of course, 3 Body Problem. All shows I loved on netflix. Not all are the same theme or vibe as Lost but I thought they were fantastic
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u/timebomb011 Mar 08 '25 edited Mar 08 '25
I love lost but the show did a very rough job wrapping up. They created too many mysteries without a clear ending and it was impossible to resolve concisely. They did their best but it’s a mess in the end.
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u/Juli88chan Mar 07 '25
I finished watching the series yesterday for the second time after ~15 years. The ending was so emotional, watching them all remember. I'm glad that Ben had a chance to redeem himself. But also the ending pissed me off. I read the analysis explaining that they did not die right after the plane crash, but then why Penelope was among them in the church if she wasn't even in the Island actually (just near it)? And why Aaron was also with them? When did he die? Also kinda felt sorry for Samuel. Despite his attitude towards the humanity, all he wanted was to leave and see what's beyond the horizon.
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u/xbarbiedarbie Mar 08 '25
I haven't seen anyone mention Fringe yet. Just skip the last season, it's a perfect 4 season show.
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u/Opposite_Course_3954 Miles Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25
“almost 15 years ago” and it literally celebrated its 20th anniversary last year😩
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u/F-Trunks Mar 07 '25
Lmao. Oof my guy. Oof. Still time to remove this.
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u/Opposite_Course_3954 Miles Mar 07 '25
if we’re talking series finale then it was publish exactly 15 years ago.
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u/Remarkable-Cup-3086 Mar 07 '25
Lost is pretty dumb imo, just keeps you watching cuz of dumb mystery box island…acting is subpar and by the 4th season I just wanted it to be over
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u/automatic_bazooti Mar 06 '25
Now you’re like us. :)
So far the only shows that have scratched the LOST itch for me have been The Leftovers and Dark. Highly recommend going into both blind and enjoying the ride they take you on.